Track List:
1.) The Meds – Dial Tones (South America)
2.) Matt Mays – Station Out Of Range [acoustic] (Twice Upon A Hell Of A Time)
3.) Robbie Tucker – George Harrison Said It’s Okay (Songs From Apt. #12)
4.) Ryan Cook – Snowbird (Having A Great Time)
5.) The Hypochondriacs – Waitin’ (Waitin’)
6.) Erin Costelo – Oh Me Oh My (We Can Get Over)
7.) Braden Lam – linen sheets (single)
8.) Jeremy Dutcher – Essuwonike (Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakoawa)
9.) D’Ambrosia – Hellbound Lover (single)
10.) Gabrielle Papillon – Wait [The Ellie Dixon Remix] (single)
11.) Nebullama – Groovin’ (Vol. 1)
12.) Lee Rosevere – something that could really help me (Stationary Loops)
Mornings Are Hard || 2023-03-14
Tracklist:
1.) Status/Non-Status – January 3rd (January 3rd)
2.) Skye Wallace – Everything Is Fine (Terribly Good)
3.) Ron Gallo – ENTITLED MAN (Foreground Music)
4.) Born Ruffians – Forget Me (Uncle, Duke & The Chief)
5.) Air Traffic Controller – Sometimes (DASH)
6.) Bibi Club – Femme-Lady (Le soleil et la mer)
7.) Foreign Diplomats – Charger (Monami)
8.) Cloudchord – Dreamer (Keep On Movin’)
9.) Begonia – Married By Elvis (Powder Blue)
10.) Philip Selway – Check For Signs Of Life (Strange Dance)
11.) MAUVEY ft. Lights – We Had The Tie Of Our Lives Together (single)
12.) Goodnight, Texas – It’s Enough (single)
13.) Terra Lightfoot – No Hurry (Every Time My Mind Runs Wild)
14.) Crocodiles – Love Beyond The Grave (single)
15.) DADDY LONG LEGS – Nightmare (Silver Satin)
Testing For Echo – Episode 20 – Another Milestone? You bet! – Orig. Air Date March 18, 2023
Hello again everyone.
We’ve come a long way in only a few months thanks to you all and your support.
We started on every other Saturday at 3:00 p.m.
The station decided on the off weeks we would go back and play a previous episode.
Those ones are Testing For Echo – Replay.
Recently the show was granted a nice time slot Tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m. to rebroadcast the previous Saturday’s show!
Now, go to the link and press that little arrow down the left of the page to listen/download the podcast.
Take good care and enjoy!
Tim
“The World of Music, One Song at a Time”
Episode Song List
- David Bowie – I’m afraid of Americans – Live
- Envy of None – Look Inside
- Chris Squire with Yes – Solo Bass Live
- Not Now – Live & Let Die
- Genesis – Man of Our Times
- Audioslave – Cochise
- Mike Oldfield – Celt
- Rush – Between the Wheels
- Vigil – White Magic Spell
- Pink Floyd – One Of These Days
- Saga- Gotta Love It

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RFYL Episode – SuppressionEP250

March Break should be a government holiday.
That’s all I’ve got. No insight, very little philosophy, just time to stay at home and enjoy … what do they call it, now? Reading week?
Reading week.
Anyway, have some music:
Playlist:
Polaris – Cellar Twins (Single)
The Woods (ft Brad Wilk) – Reignwolf (Single)
Foreigner – Sergeant Thunderhoof (This Sceptred Veil)
As A Friend – Woodhawk (Violent Nature)
Recovery – CLAEMUS (Daydream)
Firestone – Kilmore (From The Inside)
Deceiver / Soothsayer – Ruby The Hatchet (Fear Is A Cruel Master)
Sirens – Half Gramme of Soma (Slip Through The Cracks)
Return To Me – Unleash The Archers (Abyss)
Obligation – Tsunami Bomb (Trust No One)
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Gloom and Doom 08 – 2023-03-16
Gloom and Doom 08 continues our 30th anniversary commemoration of Nirvana’s In Utero with a cover of “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle” by Fresh Snow and Julie Fader. There are three whole sets of gloomy tunes, with a particularly gothic third set. New music from BIG|BRAVE.
Gloom and Doom 08 Tracklist:
Fresh Snow and Julie Fader – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
Fresh Snow – Proper Burial feat. Carmen Elle
Julie Fader – Maps
BIG|BRAVE – the one who bornes a weary load
SPECTRES – The Head and the Heart
Dillon Ryan and the Dream Romantic – So Lovely
Gloom and Doom 08 Show Notes:
- Carmen Elle has performed as part of DIANA, Army Girls, and Austra.
- We first heard BIG|BRAVE on Gloom and Doom 02.
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Ötzi disbanded earlier this month.
- Akiko Sampson of Ötzi was interviewed for the forthcoming issues of BlackStar Zine.
- Akiko and Winter Zora now perform as Yama Uba and just released a new single.
- Dylan of Ötzi now performs with False Figure and Gina Marie now performs with Adrenochrome.
- Both Ötzi and SPECTRES appear on the Artoffact Records 2020 Sampler.
- Hamsas XIII, Cockatoo, and Bloody Blue Darlings are all projects featuring Robyn Bright.
- We first heard Dermabrasion on Gloom and Doom 01.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Shelley Petit (NBCPD)

We all have needs, but sometimes we need to band with others to make those needs known.
My guest today is Shelley Petit, the Chair of the New Brunswick Coalition of Persons With Disabilities (NBCPD), an advocacy organization looking to provide a voice to represent those with disabilities. Their goal is “to achieve a New Brunswick where people with disabilities would all have access to an adequate standard of living, have access to suitable supports to be able to fully and equally participate in society”.
Shelley joins me to talk about the origins of the organization, some of the challenges and opportunities facing NBCPD, and some immediate concerns and awareness that they are trying to raise.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Don Hannah (Playwright, “Resident Aliens”)

Some events we recognize as important when they happen; others can only be realized long after, upon reflection.
My guest today is Don Hannah, a Canadian playwright behind the new play Resident Aliens. He joins me live in studio to chat about the factual origins of one part of this play — the remarkable travel of New Brunswicker Vivian Larsen in 1959 — and the fictional but realistic origins of the other part of this play, as a character looking back on a lifetime. We also talk about writing, exploring New Brunswick stories and being a playwright.
Resident Aliens premieres at TNB’s Open Space Theatre on March 22, and runs nightly until March 25, with a matinee performance on March 26. After that, it goes on tour across the province to six other locations.
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Homemade Jams || 2023-03-13
Track List:
1.) DICKY – Wasted Night (single)
2.) Chris Picco – Make It Up To You (single)
3.) Kelly McMichael – New Life Coming (Waves [Deluxe Edition])
4.) Tortue – Overburdening (single)
5.) Doctor Mother Father – Happiness (Feelin’ Fine)
6.) Motherhood – Dry Heave (single)
7.) Smaller Hearts – Sleeper Agent (single)
8.) Hillsburn – Truths You Outrun (Stories)
9.) Kim Harris – Lavender (single)
10.) Kristen Martel – Photograph of Secrets [acoustic] (single)
11.) Laura Rae – Quatre enfants [Patty, John, Sandra, Mark] (Chansons pour me grand-mère)
12.) Cameron Nickerson – Submission (Submission)
13.) Weak Size Fish – System Failure (The Drift)
The Lunchbox Interview: Marie Maltais (World Water Day 2023)

Water, water everywhere, and every drop to think!
My guest today is Marie Maltais (Director, UNB Art Centre) about this year’s art response to the annual World Water Day observation: Reflections, a collection of art inspired by, responding to and capturing elements of water. We chat about how the exhibit came to be and some of the art to be displayed.
Reflections opens in both the East and West Galleries at the UNB Art Centre in Memorial Hall at UNB on March 24 and runs through to April 28.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Theatre UNB presents “Marriage: A Demolition in Two Acts”

My guests today are Jane Isrealson (director) and David Blanchfield (actor: Wayne) from Theatre UNB’s presentation of Marriage: A Demolition in Two Acts, the latest student production. We chat about generational divides, divisions in marriage, and the divide between an actor and a character which might be nothing like them.
Marriage: A Demolition in Two Acts opens on Thursday, March 16 at 7:30pm, and runs nightly until March 18 at Memorial Hall on UNB Campus.
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Gloom and Doom 07 – 2023-03-09
Gloom and Doom 07 continues our 30th anniversary commemoration of Nirvana’s In Utero with a cover of track 4 by Ostrich Tuning. This week’s episode includes new music from BIG|BRAVE alongside classic tracks by My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, and more.
Gloom and Doom 07 Tracklist:
Ostrich Tuning – R*pe Me (Nirvana cover)
Ostrich Tuning – oakville to the end of the line
BIG|BRAVE – carvers, farriers and knaves
Emma Ruth Rundle – Citadel
The Wake – Shallow End
The Stone Roses – Standing Here
My Blood Valentine – Sometimes
Cocteau Twins – Fifty-Fifty Clown
Nightblossom – Bad Dream
Praises – Shadow of a Doubt
Nirvana – R*pe Me (Band Demo)
Gloom and Doom 07 Show Notes:
- An earlier version of “oakville to the end of the line” appears on 2011’s The Persecution and Assassination of I?.?L?.?McPhedran as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Toronto Under the Direction of (the) Ostrich Tuning.
- We first heard BIG|BRAVE on Gloom and Doom 02.
- “Standing Here” is the B-Side to 1989’s “She Bangs the Drum.”
- We first heard Praises on Gloom and Doom 04.
- Nirvana recorded their demo during a session at Jack Endino’s Word of Mouth Studios in Seattle on October 25-26th, 1992.
- Jack Endino produced Nirvana’s 1989 Bleach LP.
- The band demo of “R*pe Me” originally appeared on the With The Lights Out box set.
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RFYL Episode – ShamblesEP249

Losing track of time makes these weeks melt by, but I still remember to throw something awesome together for you to cling to. Whether or not you’ve managed to find this place just by happenstance, a band retweeting it or some other means of someone actually telling you to check out this place, I encourage you to grab a podcast and blast it out loud.
There’s several hosted up in previous episodes, and don’t worry, I barely say anything at all these days.
Playlist:
Hot Minute – Ian Blurton’s Future Now (Single)
Dig A Hole – Blood Red Shoes (Ghosts On Tape)
Tempest – Kilmore (Single)
Never Say Goodbye – Nightingale (Single)
Facade – Shades of Sorrow (Paradox)
They Live – Aittala (False Pretenses)
Control – Verse The Sun (Single)
Voyager – Half Gramme of Soma (Slip Through The Cracks)
Legacy – Unleash the Archers (Abyss)
Dominion Day – Osyron (Momentous)
Thruster – Ruby The Hatchet (Fear is a Cruel Master)
3 Days & 1000 Nights – Tsunami Bomb (Trust No One)
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The Finnish Line – Episode 02
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The Lunchbox Interview: Colin Fowlie

There are people who do music. And there are people who live it — and share.
My guest today is Colin Fowlie, someone who is involved in just about every aspect of music making, and is looking to help others grow. We chat about where his music comes from and where it’s going, as well as a new venture called East & Nowhere, where he plans to help artists grow and improve at whatever stage they need, from songwriting and music to production and promotion.
As a first release, Colin was involved in the recent single release from Krista Shannon, Last Girl On Earth.
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The Lunchbox Interview: OVATION

Music is food for the soul, and local music is a great harvest.
My guests today are Jim Tranquilla (Executive Director, Tutta Musica Orchestra) and Blair Lawrence (Project Manager). They are both involved in a project called OVATION, a province-wide series of performances aimed at “Celebrating Everyday Heroes”, especially those who stood out in the wake of the pandemic. In addition to 5 main concerts combining original, specially-commission music and video, there are 48 outreach musical performances across the province.
OVATION comes to Fredericton on Friday, March 10 at 8:00 pm at the Playhouse.
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STU Lunchbox: The Shape of the Student Body

Hosts Koan Walker-Titus and Calum MacDonald explore the fitness of a generation that spends its time in front of screens and its money on Skip the Dishes.
Music:
- “The Shape I’m In” by The Band (opening theme)
- “Remember” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (background)
- “Going Down” by the Jeff Beck Group (background)
- “Pump it Up” by Elvis Costello
- “Morning Blues” by Parker Millsap
- “Carrot Juice is Murder” by the Arrogant Worms (Canadian)
- “Day by Day” by Doug and the Slugs (Canadian)
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Testing For Echo – Episode 19 – Another Home Run – Orig. Air Date March 4, 2023
Hello everyone.
Welcome to Episode 19 of Testing For Echo on CHSR 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell.
It’s my feeling that the best episodes are the ones that go all over the place and keep listeners guessing.
Sure, I’m talking about the heavy/light mix but also the mix of eras.
In this episode I have everything from the 1970’s right up to the present.
I understand that this is impossible, but if you could get all of these bands together to play a festival it would be a home run.
Just press that little arrow down the left of the page to listen/download the podcast.
Take good care and enjoy!
Tim
“The World of Music, One Song at a Time”
Episode Song List
- The Jelly Jam – Allison
- Gary Numan – Saints and Liars
- SAGA – Solsbury Hill
- Animals As Leaders – Micro Aggressions
- Robert Plant – Angel Dance
- Not Now – Out of Control
- Bryan Ferry – All Along the Watchtower
- RUSH – Countdown
- Frank Zappa – Camarillo Brillo
- King Crimson – Matte Kudasai
- Triumph – Allied Forces
- Camel – Air Born

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RFYL Episode – SolidEP248

We’ve made it through another work week and what better way to celebrate than by having a ton of music randomly thrown in your face! Do be warned, however, as we start out pretty heavy this week and it only stays that way!
Go check out Aittala’s new album! Just launched on the 28th!
Playlist:
Frontal Lobe – Kitchen Witch (Earth & Aether)
We’re All Wolves – Highkicks (Highkicks 2)
Bored of the Lie – The Black Frame Spectacle
Awake – Osyron (Momentous)
Magnetar – Half Gramme of Soma (Slip Through the Cracks)
Maze – Black Fate (Ithaca)
Nemesis / Afterthought – Aittala (False Pretenses)
Falsewave – Unleash the Archers (Apex (Deluxe Version))
Purge – Claemus (Single)
Age of Deception – Tymo (The Art of a Maniac)
Not Forever – Tsunami Bomb (Trust No One)
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Gloom and Doom 06 – 2023-03-02
Gloom and Doom 06 continues our 30th anniversary celebration of Nirvana’s In Utero with a cover by Beliefs. This week’s episode features music from Grimes, Radiohead, Mad Season, and more.
Gloom and Doom 06 Tracklist:
Beliefs – Heart-Shaped Box
Beliefs – Catch My Breath
Palm Haze – Walk Away
TRAITRS – Ghost and the Storm
Ringfinger – Vibrance
Disintegration – time moves for me
Disintegration – carry with you
Grimes – Urban Twilight
Blackpaw Society – Strange Fictionkicks
Radiohead – Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes and Ladders.)
Mad Season – Long Gone Day
Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box (Band Demo)
Gloom and Doom 06 Show Notes:
- We heard the B-Side to “Catch My Breath” on Gloom and Doom 04.
- “Catch My Breath” is also found on Hand Drawn Dracula’s XIV compilation.
- Other Voices Records issued Ringfinger’s Echoes Fade on cassette.
- Darkbloom by Grimes is a split EP with Canadian musician d’Eon.
- Ride the Tempo is a now-defunct Canadian music blog.
- Baffled Octopi Records issued the Weirdest Tuesday compilation.
- Mad Season is the grunge super group featuring members of Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, and others.
- Watch the music video for “Long Gone Day” on YouTube.
- Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees and Mad Season passed away February 22, 2022.
- Nirvana recorded the “Heart-Shaped Box” demo in Rio de Janeiro in January, 1993.
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Mornings Are Hard || 2023-03-03
Tracklist:
1.) Trashed Ambulance – Cyntax Error (single)
2.) PUP – Robot Writes A Love Song (The Unraveling Of PUPTHEBAND)
3.) Never Stay Down – Make Me Feel Alive (single)
4.) Kristi Lane Sinclair – Break (single)
5.) Daveband – Sweet Little Place On Agricola (single)
6.) Chris Landry – Marylou (Marylou)
7.) Softlung – Don’t Say No (single)
8.) Ins Kino – Box Kite (Ins Kino 2)
9.) Izzy Heltai – Running Out (single)
10.) Sunnsetter – Surely Everything’s Alright (single)
11.) Theo Tams – Cowboy Take Me Away (Uncovered [Volume 1])
12.) Ivytide – flood lines (single)
13.) Jeremy Voltz – Miracles (single)
14.) Abigail Lapell – Blinding Lights (single)
15.) Jenny Mallard – The Anchor (Into The Deep)
16.) Softee – Come Home (single)
Mornings Are Hard || 2023-03-02
Tracklist:
1.) Begonia – Butterfly (Powder Blue)
2.) The Franklin Electric – Call Me (single)
3.) Patrick Krief – Let It Go (single)
4.) Hayden ft. Feist – On A Beach (single)
5.) Andy Shauf – Wasted On You (Norm)
6.) Hally Greg – No Room For Me (Straitjacket)
7.) No Doubt – Artificial Sweetener (Return Of Saturn)
8.) The Rural Alberta Advantage – Terrified (Mended With Gold)
9.) Phantom Elite – Black Sunrise (single)
10.) Julia Sound – I Don’t Wanna Change (single)
11.) BLACK FORCES – BACK 2 BLACK (single)
12.) Negativland – There Is No Planet (Speech Free)
13.) Cinephonic – Le Combat (Visions)
14.) Cinephonic – Pyramides (Visions)
Mornings Are Hard || 2023-03-01
Tracklist:
1.) Lido Pimienta – Te Queria (Miss Columbia)
2.) Kingo Halla – Vertigo (Empty Hands)
3.) KAYTRANADA ft. Charlotte Day Wilson – What You Need (BUBBA)
4.) Imanos ft. Malcom Zeller – Shiver & Gold (single)
5.) Jim Alxndr – Live In Pretend (Feelings Worth Living For)
6.) Sophia Bel – I Won’t Bite (Anxious Avoidant Deluxe)
7.) Sam Casey – Good Fight (More Songs About Weed And Toxic Relationships)
8.) Margo Price ft. Sharon Van Etten – Radio (Strays)
9.) Shame – Burning By Design (Food For Worms)
10.) Mariel Buckley – Neon Blue (Everywhere I Used To Be)
11.) Colin Fowlie – Someone’s Favourite Song (East Of Nowhere)
12.) Whitehorse – If The Loneliness Don’t Kill Me (I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying)
13.) Tami Neilson – Baby, You’re A Gun (Kingmaker)
14.) The Hypochondriacs – Highway #2 (Waitin’)
15.) Megan Brickwood – Trinity River Blues (Fifth Mile)
Homemade Jams || 2023-02-28
Tracklist:
1.) COMPANDER – the Bramble (Diverdant)
2.) COMPANDER – Noises (Diverdant)
3.) Tortue – Overburdening (single)
4.) Constant Greetings – Field Trips (Field Trips)
5.) She Roars – Petty Thieves (Companion)
6.) Oh No, Theodore! – You COuld Do Better Than Me (We’re All Underachieving)
7.) LOVEOVER – Go Away // Stay Away (Worse Than Before)
8.) Doctor Mother Father – Wish You Didn’t KNow (Feelin’ Fine)
9.) Villages – Love Will Live On (Dark Island)
10.) Run The River – The Game (The Shiftwork EP)
11.) Mike Bern – Grateful Sun (single)
12.) Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade – I Won’t Break (single)
13.) Blue Lobelia – Holding – First Quarter Moon (Resilient Moon)
14.) Pallmer – Bricks (single)
15.) TYNES – Makar (single)
STU Lunchbox: Voices of Experience

Hosts Miles Bergquist and Corey Kelly explore what advice seniors – the boomers and the Silent Generation – would give to Generation Z as they take baby steps into adulthood.
Music:
- “Keep it Between the Lines” by Sturgill Simpson (theme)
- “You Got to Move” Rolling Stones (background)
- “The Winner Is” by DeVotchKa (background)
- “Do You Realize” by The Flaming Lips
- “When My Time Comes” by Dawes
- “Yellowstone Theme” (Bluegrass version) Andrew Crawford (background)
- “Sweet Dreams” by Roy Buchanan (background)
- “Ooh La La” by The Faces
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Mornings Are Hard || 2023-02-28
Tracklist:
1.) Motherhood – Crawly I (Winded)
2.) dEUS – Must Have Been New (How To Replace It)
3.) Taleen Kali – Crusher (single)
4.) Blessed – Redefine (Circuitous)
5.) Only A Visitor – All You’ve Held Since (Decay)
6.) Kerala Dust – Violet Drive (Violet Drive)
7.) Kate Fagan – Come Over (I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool [Expanded Edition])
8.) Geoffroy – When Everything Is Gone (1952)
9.) MorMor – Far Apart (Semblance)
10.) Aquakultre – Don’t Trip (Don’t Trip)
11.) Surma – Islet (alla)
12.) Shy Kids – fresh off a feeling (single)
13.) Milk & Bone – Daydream (Deception Bay)
14.) Mayfly – Passenger Seat (HIDEAWAY, Vol. 1)

